LORRAINE SALLOUM
Chief People Officer, Achieve Australia

Driving Engagement, Performance and Empowerment

• Evaluating the business case for creating a mentally healthy
workplace
• Understanding the role of stress in mental health to role model
as a leader
• Curating individual wellness journeys for improved mental and
physical wellbeing
• Promoting an open culture that actively prioritises mental health
for greater attrition

• Embedding a culture of high performance
• How we implemented our data-evidenced, strategic health
and safety plan
• Ensuring business partners are in place to support our people
• Identifying, evaluating and acting on capability gaps in health and wellbeing

VICKI LEAVER
Chief People and Culture Officer, Teachers Mutual Bank Limited

10:20 MORNING REFRESHMENTS

TALENT ATTRACTION AND RETENTION IN A TIME OF CRISIS

Ensuring a collaborative, highly engaged employee experience within the team has become even more complex, as we embrace new ways of working. How are we changing the way we monitor and manage both employee experience and team performance to reflect the current work environment and capitalise on workforce capability? This session will discuss effective hybrid team
engagement strategies and progressive performance management
practices.
• What are some emerging trends in hybrid work? Do they affect employee performance?
• What are some innovative engagement strategies currently
getting results?
• How do you build a hybrid culture of collaboration, performance and accountability?
• How do you align personal and team objectives with the overall
organisational strategy?

PANELLISTS:

MELANIE COLE
Head of People & Culture, Car Next Door

GARETH RUSSELL
Chief People Officer, Hudson

MAREE SLATER
Director, People and Performance, NSW Health Infrastructure

MODERATOR:

SUSANNA IANNI
Ex-Group Organisation, Effectiveness Manager, People and Culture, Boral

• Define a clear retention strategy: leverage employee value
proposition data to re-recruit the existing workforce
• Emphasize expanding talent pools worldwide, to drive diversity,
equity, and inclusion
• Investment and deployment in technology to streamline the
talent acquisition process
• Ensure that the organisations EVP is relevant, attractive to top
talent and persuasive

• Reimagining the return to work with mindful space optimisation
that considers wellness
• Developing a strong communication strategy for leaders
supporting hybrid teams
• Creating a supportive streamlined onboarding experience for recently hired remote workers
• Offering flexibility: options and support as to how and where
employees want to work
• Rethinking hardware and software strategy for a connected, hybrid workforce

COURTNEY POND
Group Inclusion & Diversity Manager, The NRMA

12:50 NETWORKING LUNCH

• Enabling innovative and personalised employee experiences to align with great customer experiences
• What is a human-centred design approach when applied to hybrid
workplaces?
• How can we best harness design thinking to transform organisations and inspire innovation?

KELLY MITCHELL
General Manager Employee Experience, TabCorp

• Effectively communicating mental health policy and ongoing commitment to well-being
• Embracing employee feedback in order to improve and be responsive to current needs
• How to normalise and promote daily conversations on mental
health and wellbeing
• Recognising warning signs when an employee is under stress or
unwell

SARAH GRAFTON
Head of People and Culture Australia and New Zealand,
Fujitsu General Australia

3:20 AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS

Organisations are facing increased resignations in a competitive job market. Skill-shortages and chronic worker fatigue driven by
the personal hardships caused by the pandemic, economic uncertainty and the War in Ukraine are affecting talent retention.
In this session, hear how Australia’s leading companies are
developing leadership capability to lead adequately in relation to
what businesses require to future-proof the business, retain talent
and prevent the risk of attrition.

• How is your organisation identifying and developing gaps in
leadership capabilities?
• How do you make it safe and essential for leaders to continuously develop?
• Revisiting desirable capabilities in leaders: what does diverse leadership look like?
• How are your leader’s role-modelling? Are they “walking the
talk” in terms of flexibility?
• Leadership visibility: what does it mean in the new hybrid world
of work?
• Do your leaders have the skills to effectively navigate authentic
conversations around: career pathways; flexible work practices;
career breaks and well-being?
• Can your leaders manage their own well-being as well as the
needs of the team?

PANELLISTS:

JOSHUA GRIFFIN
Head of Inclusion and Talent Development, SBS Australia

KELLIE WADE
Diversity & Inclusion Manager, Johnson Winter & Slattery

SARAH GRAFTON
Head of People and Culture Australia and New Zealand,
Fujitsu General Australia

PETER HARTNETT
Head of People and Culture, SanitariumH ealth and Wellbeing

MODERATOR:
REBECCA HOUGHTON
CEO, BoldHR

• Leading with empathy when managing change, transformation and people
• Building trust with key stakeholders and delivering value from strong relationships
• Disrupting traditional ways of developing potential CEOs by
investing in emerging HR leaders
• Developing a solid succession management strategy and planning
before you need to

JOSHUA GRIFFIN
Head of Inclusion and Talent Development, SBS Australia

Closing remarks from the chair

Networking drinks